Divided
lives
for
those who love
some
worthy, some not,
outside
of our strictures
yet
called by our God
to
go, to serve
The
law, our word
what
is written down
words
of man
the
Spirit guiding
calling
their hearts
to
go, to serve
Those
who love them
our
neighbors,
sons
and daughters
all
of God’s children
they
too called
to
go, to serve
But
how, when so divided
lives
torn, between God and man
life
harder, placed upon them
because
of our judgment
called
by our God
to
go, to serve
Edited November 24, 2013
Divided Lives – v5
(after verdict and sentence on Rev.
Frank Schaefer)
Edited October 25, 2013
Divided Lives – v4
(editing
version 2)
Edited September 26, 2013
Divided Lives – v3
(editing original again)
Edited September 15, 2013
Divided Lives – v2
June
19, 2011
Divided Lives
&
Edited September 7, 2013
“Making the secular Holy – v2”
new poem September 7, 2013
“Making the secular Holy”
----
This poem is about my wife and me when we got married
in a civil service on December 17, 2004 in Concord, NH in
White Park
and then before our church family at
Wesley United Methodist Church in Concord, NH
on April 23, 2005.
----
We celebrate 2 anniversaries because they both mean a
great
deal to us, in very different ways.
I grieve for those who are able to marry civilly in so
many
states now, such as NH, but are unable to marry in their
United Methodists churches and for the clergy who are put
on trial
for choosing to go against the Discipline to marry them.
&
trials
of Rev. Frank Schaefer
and
Rev. Thomas Ogletree
and Rev. Steve Heiss
&
Edited
September 7, 2013
For
Offering Love – v2
June
22, 2011
For Offering Love
Love on Trial,
the case against the Reverend Amy DeLong,
which begins on June 20, 2011
&
John 8:1-11
&
Samuel Thompson’s
Inclusion Essay
shared at the New England United
Methodist Church
Annual Conference
in response to call by Reconciling
Ministries Network
for essays describing, “My vision for an inclusive church”,
June 10, 2011
&
in part inspired by conversations with
the Reverend John Makokha
Riruta UMC
Other Sheep Afrika-Kenya http://www.othersheep.org/OSEA_CL_Other_Sheep_Kenya.html
Children of Africa Hope Mission Project in
the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. http://rirutaumc.homestead.com/children_of_africa.html
&
Matthew 25:31-46
The Sheep and the Goats
&
Matthew 28:18-20
Matthew 28:18-20
Great Commission
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